Josh Finally Meets His Uncle Chris!

Chris is home!!!! Josh was born when Greg's brother was on a mission in Idaho. He came home last night. Josh just kept staring like "who is this guy?"

Everyone is so happy to have him home!!! It's been a long, but fast two years!

Surprisingly Good Photo Session!

Even though Josh had a big red bump on his head the day we went to get his Christmas Portraits taken, it went rather well. We had a great woman who made him laugh and got tons of good pictures. The problem with this is I liked more than one so I wanted to order more than one pose! I'm sure everyone knows that's how they get you. The cheap packages only allow you to get one pose for all the pics in the package. How sad!!!! I wanted to order lots and lots of my cute little guy.

Want to check them out????

Here they are:

Josh Christmas Pictures

Just put in my name as the customer name and you can check them out!

You have to do this...

Okay, so you know those lame commercials that Brooke Shields has been doing, well the the VW website has a place where you can input a picture of the "mom" and "dad" and "make a baby." This is so funny. I'm so so glad that our REAL baby is much much cuter than this scary dude!!! Everyone has to do this. Go to www.vw.com and go to "RoutanBabymaker3000"!

These are the pics I used and this is what transpired...

Check it out:

Scary Harry Born on November 29, 2008 at 10:01 p.m. 6 pounds 15 ounces, 21.2 inches Proud Parents: Greg and Kristin

Private Reading Area...

Sometimes Josh really does something that makes me stop and say, what the heck is he doing???

All this week he has found a new place to do his reading. All his books usually reside in this canvas tote. Well, he decided to one by one empty out the tote, climb inside then start pulling books back in with him to "read." Once he has brought enough books back in the tote with him, he then repeats said process by getting out and one by one emptying it back out then getting back in to repeat the process all over again.

All I can say is, it is hilarious!!!!

Happy Belated Halloween!

Josh loved pulling the insides out of the pumpkin! He even tried the seeds.
We made a bat to go with his vampire costume!

Boo at the Zoo was great! We road the train and looked at all the creepy things they have set up. Josh really seemed to like it all.

Josh's first official Trick or Treat at a friend's house.
All he did that night was take the stuff out of his bucket and try to share it. What a giver!

Here is a good view of his costume. He's even flaring his cape.
He was a cute little vampire. Everyone loved his costume. It was such a big hit.
I love Halloween. I'm so glad we got to do so many activities. Last year he just chilled in his car seat as a pumpkin. This year I had to run to keep up. What a blast!

How thin is the veil for our little ones???

So I have this magnet on the fridge. It's from one of those RS handouts...

Anyway, I have shown Josh a picture of Christ before and told him it was "Jesus", but never this picture. So yesterday I was holding him while getting something out of the fridge.

He said "Jesus" plain as day and when I looked up he was pointing at that picture on the fridge. Wow! Was all I could think or say b/c he doesn't say much. His vocabulary usually consists of "dada" "no no no no no", or "dog". I mean, I think he's trying to say other things sometimes like "ball" but it really doesn't sound like "ball". He will occasionally and I mean occasionally say "mamma" or "nanna". But that's it. So I was really like WOW!!!

So really, how thin is the veil for the little ones that have just left Heavenly Father's presence? How much do they really remember?????? Oh to be able to take a peek at how they view the world right now...

Like Father, Like Son!

A young Dave Matthews' fan:






So Josh doesn't watch any tv. He will occasionally look at sports or music and sometimes he will watch for a minute if I put Sesame Street or something on, but not much at all. Well, Greg was watching a Dave Matthews concert last night that he had recorded and Josh just kept watching with him. He moved around a few times, but still, it was the most tv he's ever watched. It was crazy. It looks like I'll have two Dave fanatics on my hands!! Oh joy!